By Sheela Reddy, MD, Trainee Member, AASLD TH Pilot Program Fellow, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital For the last six years, every career decision has culminated with me anxiously awaiting a computer-generated notification of where the next chapter of my life would be spent. Upon entering my third year of GI fellowship,... Read more

As Michael R. Lucey, MD, FAASLD, nears the end of his tenure as editor in chief of the multimedia journal Clinical Liver Disease, he can proudly reflect on its growth, its usefulness as a resource for hepatologists and its latest milestone, its acceptance for listing in PubMed. “We saw at the very beginning that PubMed is b... Read more

Congratulations to Neeral Shah, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, was awarded the 2017 Young Physician Award from the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians {ACP). Shah received this award for his work with medical students, internal medicine residents, and GI fellows.... Read more

By Omar Y. Mousa, MD1, Christina Lindenmeyer, MD2 Mayo Clinic Florida1, Cleveland Clinic Ohio2. We had the honor of receiving the AASLD Emerging Liver Scholar (ELS) Resident Travel Award for The Liver Meeting® 2013, the second year of the program. As Emerging Liver Scholars, we were given an enormous opportunity during a cr... Read more

AASLD will be exhibiting at EASL’s International Liver Congress. Visit Booth #51 in the exhibit hall to pick up some AASLD-branded giveaways, learn about upcoming meetings, and chat with AASLD staff and leadership. Exhibit hall hours are Thursday, April 20 through Saturday, April 22, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. Read more

By Lyle Dennis, Cavarocchi – Ruscio – Dennis Associates, Consultants to AASLD A lot of people in Washington were stunned when the President, speaking to a room full of Governors in the White House, declared that health care is complicated and concluded with the rhetorical question, “Who knew?” Shortly thereafter, he and any... Read more

A team of internationally recognized experts in liver disease will present a variety of educational programming at this year’s Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Chicago, May 6-9. Registration is open for what is billed as the “First and Foremost GI Event in the World.” According to AASLD Secretary Kimberly A. Brown, MD, FAASL... Read more

By Anna S. Lok, MD, FAASLD, AASLD President On March 28, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine/IOM) released phase 2 of a report on eliminating hepatitis B and C as a public health concern in the United States. AASLD was one of the sponsors of this effort, which [... Read more

Spring is here! It’s time for flowers to bloom, leaves to unfold, and AASLD members to renew for the new 2017/2018 membership year. AASLD has transitioned its membership cycle from the calendar year to a timeline that more closely aligns with the academic calendar. Under the new schedule, membership terms begin July 1 and c... Read more